In late autumn, there is no chill in the imperial capital of the Song Dynasty. The green leaves are still swaying in the warm wind, and they are always so full of vitality. Thousands of small flowers on the roadside are competing for their beauty, which is so beautiful that it makes people palpitate.
It's touching.
Prince Liansheng was looking at trees and flowers as usual, and under the guidance of his maid, he wandered around the imperial capital with a smile on his face. The imperial capital was very big, and they spent a full ten days wandering around without returning.
Only this time, when they passed the northernmost city gate of the imperial capital, Liansheng stopped for some unknown reason.
"I really don't know what it's like outside the city. Is it more beautiful than inside the city?" Young Liansheng sighed as he looked outside the city gate.
"In one year, you will be an adult and can leave the city." The maid replied.
Liansheng nodded and forcibly suppressed a certain desire in his heart, because his queen mother told him that his childhood was not over until he reached the age of sixteen and he could leave the city. Liansheng did not want to disappoint his queen mother, nor did he want to be involved.
Little maid, so he still hasn't left the city, but he has become more and more curious about the world outside the city.
But just when Liansheng decided to return to the palace as usual, two people suddenly came outside the city gate. A middle-aged man was carrying an old man on his back and wanted to enter the city.
The middle-aged man looked very anxious, while the old man was dying and almost running out of gas. They entered the city because they wanted to seek medical treatment. Because only the imperial capital has better doctors. Unfortunately, they came at the wrong time, because
Liansheng has left the palace, so no old people are allowed to appear in the imperial capital, and no old people from outside are allowed to enter the city...
Liansheng didn't know this. He just looked at the old man's old and ugly face and his dying breath, and his face became extremely pale.
"What's wrong with him? Is he sick? But what kind of disease is it? How can it be so terrible?" Liansheng thought in his heart. He was kind-hearted and revealed his identity immediately, and turned away from the city gate.
The soldiers walked towards the middle-aged and old people outside the city, wanting to see what kind of disease the old people had.
However, the old man was already dying, just like the dead leaf Liansheng saw when he was a child, without any vitality. This was the first time he saw human death.
At the same time, because he was anxious to check on the old man's condition, he stepped out of the city gate for the first time. Then he felt the cold wind, saw countless fallen leaves flying in the cold wind, and saw the bare leaves.
branches, withered flowers, withered weeds...
But these should be extremely normal things in late autumn, but in Liansheng's eyes, they seem like the death of heaven and earth, the end of the world...
"What's happened to the world? What's going on? What disease does he have?" Liansheng suppressed the shock in his heart and asked the middle-aged man.
The ordinary middle-aged man in civilian clothes was silent, but his expression was filled with sadness.
The old man gave the middle-aged man a kind look and said, "My son, why should I be sad? You know I'm not sick, so why do you have to bring me to the imperial capital for medical treatment? I'm already old and I'm bound to die. How can I do that?
Forced to stay?”
The middle-aged man in civilian clothes covered his pain and whispered: "It's good to keep it for a while longer."
Listening to the conversation between the two, Liansheng was deeply shocked again. He asked in confusion: "Oldness? What is oldness? What is death?"
The old man smiled and replied: "Everyone will grow old and die."
A simple word, but it gave Liansheng the final blow to his pure heart, shattering the beautiful world in his heart into pieces.
Liansheng fainted and was carried back to the palace. He became seriously ill... He could not accept the fact that people would grow old and die. At the same time, he became afraid of time for the first time.
Fear of death.
He thought that if everyone will die and turn into bones and skeletons, then of course everything in the world will be void and meaningless. The handsome appearance will become old with time. The so-called wisdom in the world,
It's just that among many ants, a certain ant is more powerful than
The other ant is just a little smarter. Even if he has great power and great mountains and rivers, he has never been able to truly own them. Even if he spends his life achieving great achievements and becoming wise, he will only be a yellowing for future generations.
A few words in the history books.
Even if he has amazing talents, what will happen if he steps into the holy realm in the future? Saints will also grow old and die. Even if they have a life span of thousands of years, they will just linger in the shadow of death.
In those infinitely sad thoughts, Liansheng's illness became more and more serious. It was undoubtedly a heart disease, and the illness was really serious. The King of Song Dynasty tried all the famous doctors in the world, but none of them could cure it.
So the King of Song Dynasty finally thought of some words of Master Kongji, the abbot of Liao Kong Temple. Master Kongji once said that the lotus is destined to be a Buddha, and it is destined to shine brightly in the Buddha's path in this life.
"Heart diseases always require heart medicine. Maybe Buddhism can be a good medicine for the heart." The King of Song thought so, and finally invited Master Kongji back, and even promised Master Kongji that as long as Liansheng could be cured, he would let Liansheng enter the hospital.
Buddhism.
Master Kongji came as promised and met with Liansheng. It only took a moment to make Liansheng's mental illness disappear. This incident became a wonderful talk. I don't know how many people praised Master Kongji for the profound Dharma. However, the fact is that
Above, Master Kongji only spoke a few words to Liansheng.
"How can I not die?" Liansheng asked with a pale face.
"Nirvana." Master Kongji said calmly...
"The Nirvana realm above the True Martial Realm?" Liansheng asked with some disbelief.
"This Nirvana is the Nirvana in the wonderful meaning of Buddhism, not the Nirvana that warriors often talk about." Master Kongji said with a smile.
"Then how can we achieve the kind of nirvana you mentioned?" Liansheng asked again.
"You need to understand this yourself from the Buddhist scriptures. I believe you will understand one day." Master Kongji said with a smile.
Liansheng silently thought about the beautiful world in his heart and the extremely cruel world in reality. After pondering for a long time, he finally burst out with endless power from the bottom of his heart and made a decision! He wanted to defeat death!
Therefore, he said nothing and took nothing with him that day. Because he felt that if he could not defeat death, then everything he said would be nonsense, and all the treasures he took away would be just illusions. He remained silent like that, and followed with empty hands.
Master Kongji is gone.
From then on, Liansheng completely embarked on the struggle against death. He was extremely naive, but also extremely stubborn and stubborn, embarking on the seemingly impossible path of no return.
He studied Buddhism in the temple and cared little about anything else except Buddhism, except for practice. Because in his opinion, practice may not allow people to defeat death, but it can delay the arrival of old age and the pace of death.
For ten years, he remained silent for ten years. He just read scriptures and understood the Dharma silently in the temple with green lanterns and Buddha statues. Ten years later, he became a blockbuster without speaking. He gave sermons at the Bon Festival.
, like lotuses spitting out of the mouth,
Every mantra he speaks has won praises and applause. He has never been unremitting in his cultivation, and entered the realm of Nirvana at the age of only twenty-seven, becoming the youngest Nirvana master and the youngest Shanmen in the history of Liao Kong Temple.
Dharma protector.
His excellence makes people admire, envy, and even envy. But Liansheng never cares about those external illusions, let alone his own cultivation state of Nirvana. Because in his eyes, the state of a warrior can not only delay death.
It has no use at all except for the coming of God. His dream is just the kind of great nirvana mentioned by Master Kong Ji, the Nirvana of immortality!
Day after day, year after year, sixty years have passed in the blink of an eye. Liansheng's speed of cultivation and the depth of his Dharma are unparalleled in the empire and in Liao Kong Temple. That year Liansheng was about to
A broken mirror may become a saint at any time. However, some people in Liao Kong Temple finally felt a kind of panic... Because Liansheng was so good, and Master Kongji's deadline was coming soon, and he was ready to destroy Liao Kong Temple's
The position of hosting and teaching to others.
If there are no accidents, the position of abbot must have fallen into the hands of the great disciple of the temple who has been practicing hard for nearly a thousand years. But now Master Kongji wants to pass the position of abbot to Liansheng. So the great disciple has been practicing hard for a thousand years and wants to
The fame he wanted to gain was difficult to obtain again. Therefore, he hated Liansheng.
However, there was no bloody murder or frame-up and slander, because after Liansheng realized this, he immediately gave up the false name, because in his eyes, the false name was really just a false name.
.But he made a request, he wanted to watch Master Kongji pass away with his own eyes.
That night was a deep dark night, as if the stars and the moon in the sky were swallowed up by endless darkness. Liansheng looked at Master Kongji who had a strong and powerful aura yesterday, and his aura was stripped away by an invisible force between heaven and earth, and he watched helplessly.
Seeing Master Kong Ji's flame of life about to be extinguished like a broken lamp without oil, the fear of death rose from the bottom of my heart again.
"What exactly is the Great Nirvana? How can we achieve immortality?" Liansheng looked at Master Kongji and asked.
"To be pure and clean, with no worries, no worries, no life and death, no body, all dharmas are empty, and only the compassionate and compassionate soul remains immortal, is the great nirvana." Master Kongji said at the last moment.
There was a hint of contemptuous ridicule on the corner of Liansheng's mouth, and he said with a sneer: "No worries, no worries? But I know that three hundred years ago you went to a small town called Qingle for a tour, and finally moved the so-called ordinary heart.
Then you married a wife and had children there, left an heir, and lived a hundred years of life that an ordinary person should have. And last year, you went to that small town again and looked at a certain house from a distance.
One glance.”
Master Kongji was silent for a moment, but there was a hint of bitterness on his face. He put his hands together and recited the word "Buddha".
"You know that your time is coming and you are going to die, so you are in pain and feel that the world is cruel, but you are still reluctant to let go of this world, so you want to leave an heir and treat your heir like the most ordinary person.
Be the continuation of your own life!" Liansheng looked at the look on Master Kongji's face.
He laughed bitterly and said unceremoniously: "Born in this world, living in this world, how can one be pure? How can one truly be free from worries? Great Nirvana? If you don't believe this nonsense yourself, why should you let me
Letter? The so-called immortality and eternal spirit are just deceiving yourself and others!"
Amidst Liansheng's laughter, Master Kongji's body turned into ashes and ceased to exist. Other monks in Liaokong Temple heard Liansheng's laughter and knew that Master Kongji could not be pure at the moment of death.
, immediately shouted sharply and wanted to punish Liansheng.
Luo Sheng laughed again and asked everyone: "There is nothing in his heart, so how can he stir up dust? His heart is not pure, there is dust in it, so how can he say that I disturbed his purity?"
Everyone was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer, but they just felt that Liansheng had gone crazy, even possessed by a demon.
Liansheng was indeed crazy, because he confirmed that the so-called Great Nirvana was a scam, and he had done useless work for hundreds of years. However, he was as crazy as a demon, but he did not become a demon, but became a saint.